HULL KR: Fantastic Mr Fox wants crack at Aussies (video)
HULL KR winger Peter Fox hopes his two-try heroics against New Zealand will keep him in the England squad for Saturday's Four Nations final against Australia.
Fox was England's match winner at the Galpharm Stadium with two well taken tries in the 20-12 win over the reigning world champions Kiwis.
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Hull KR's Peter Fox shows his delight for England
The winger, who turned 25 on Thursday, was dropped for the first two games but Tony Smith showed faith in him to bring him back into the fold for the winner-takes-all clash.
Now, after missing the 26-16 defeat to Australia 10 days ago, Fox hopes to line up against the Four Nations favourites at Elland Road on Saturday night.
"Hopefully I've done enough to keep my spot," Fox told the Mail.
"I made an error in defence for their first try but apart from that I was happy with my all round game.
"Scoring tries is one thing, but it's all about my defence.
"I hold my hand up for that try in the first half and I apologised to the lads at half time. But I feel I rectified that in the second half. We can all take confidence from this win.
"It means a lot to me. You dream about these sort of things and hopefully I can get the nod on Saturday night and play in the final.
"We are 80 minutes away from winning the final and we have to hold our heads up high and be confident."
Fox knows how important Saturday's game is.
England have waited a long time to win a major tournament and that fact is not lost on Fox who, as a Leeds United fan, is relishing the chance to play at Elland Road.
"To beat Australia in a final would be very special," said Fox.
"It's been a long time, over 30 years I think it is since we beat Australia in a major final.
"It's about time that changed, especially with it being at Elland Road.
"Personally it would be good for me as I can have bragging rights over Clint Newton and Mick Vella for the next 12 months."
Fox believes England have the beating of Australia, but insists improvements need to be made.
Australia, who will start as favourites, were held scoreless in the second half of the previous meeting at the DW Stadium and Fox believes that will count for something.
"Anyone can beat anyone," said Fox, who made it six tries in five England appearances.
"We need to improve things around the ruck.
"To beat Australia you need enthusiasm, strong running and hard defending. If we do that and get things right I'm sure we'll be close."
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by Come On England, Hull
Monday, November 09 2009, 11:30PM
“Oh dear,I think you're the thick one mate,unless you're "pished" as you don't even talk sense.Btw who's Eddy Hemmens??”
by craven park is falling down, hull
Monday, November 09 2009, 11:00PM
“oh and i nearly forgot did i miss the anouncement about rovers new signing.”
by craven park is falling down, hull
Monday, November 09 2009, 10:56PM
“all you rovers fans must be thick 1st eddy hemmens is a robins fan he said it when rovers played leeds, 2nd that dlgjkhghfk geezer sits at his comp writing under different names calling all fc fans for having a go at fox and then slates tom briscoe, 3rd h d m are fans of rovers and do write biased reports, but the true fc fans are not worried because it will all come back to bite them on the @rse, and when(and i mean when not if ) fc get there rightful place back in the top half of the table coupled with the demise of rovers we will can all get back to normality and those rovers fans get crawl back under there rocks.and just for the record rovers we used to be bottom three but that was last year, this is now the new season cos we are back in the pre season training.”
by Come On England, Hull
Monday, November 09 2009, 10:04PM
“Think it's funny the Fc fans saying the HDM is bias because of the headline!!
Eddy said exactly the same during the game,and the skysports website headline was exactly the same.
Like the last poster said it's a film!!”
by ed, hdm
Monday, November 09 2009, 6:46PM
“get with it , fantastic mr fox is a film ,its hdm trying to be funny.”